MONIQUE SCHAFTER: It's called F. It's about how teenagers learn about sex and sexuality in 2016.

ACTOR: Who took this?

ACTOR: Me.

ACTOR: Why is it called F?

ACTOR: F***

ACTOR: From asking Kat and Morgan, more or less I got the F from fail, a failed grade.

ACTOR: I guess it's for your own interpretation.

KATRINA CORNWELL: I think growing up and learning about sex is so different now.

And a lot of my friends and people that are my age have a moment when they remember learning about what sex is and it's like your parents sit you down, that I have the birds and the bee talk, or you found a porno in your dad's garage or something like that.

And it's this definitive moment whereas now I think it's more hazy, it's always subtly been there in the background because they have access to the internet.

MONIQUE SCHAFTER: How much of what you guys know would you have learned from the internet?

ACTORS: A lot, most.

MONIQUE SCHAFTER: Youth theatre company Riot Stage was inspired by Frank Wedekind's 19th century play Spring Awakening about teenagers coming of age with no information about sex.

Realising it was no longer relevant thanks to the internet the creators worked with teenagers to modernise it.

ACTOR: Good photo.

ACTOR: Well, I sent it to Dylan.

ACTOR: Who is Dylan?

ACTOR: OMG, you know who Dylan is.

MORGAN ROSE, WRITER: We did improvisations, we had a lot of cast discussions, we even worked with anonymous online surveys that would go to the cast but also to their networks so that we could get feedback on more sensitive topics so that people might feel uncomfortable talking about in person.

MONIQUE SCHAFTER: What themes does the play explore?

SARAH, AGE 18: Anything that you kind of experience when you are a teenager, so identifying sexuality, sex, consent, communicating between each other, friendship.

ACTOR: Look at the photo.

ACTOR: What?

ACTOR: That's not saved on my phone.

ACTOR: What are you talking about?

ACTOR: That is a website called myex.com.

ACTOR: What? How it is online?

ACTOR: Well, Dylan...

ACTOR: Oh my God.

ACTOR: How do you take it down?

ACTOR: I have no idea.

ALANNA, AGE 18: It's based on those awful things that happened not so long ago with the actual website myex.com.

There were girls in Australian High Schools who their shitty older partners were like, here, here are the nudes you sent me, put them online.

BONNIE, AGE 15: I know a lot of people this has happened to. This is not something that just happens once. It happens all the time.

It's very real. And it is something that is so new and no-one knows how to control or deal with it.

AMELIA, AGE 19: And our play isn't saying don't send nude pictures of yourself if you don't want other people to see them.

That is an over simplistic answer to that problem.

But what we try to do is, in this play is present it and sort of be like, look at the actual pain it causes people at a very human level.

CHARLIE, AGE 15: It shows a human explanation to all the stories those people would see on the news of crazy things these teenagers have done.

MONIQUE SCHAFTER: The play has been in development for a year and premiered at Melbourne's new Poppy Seed Theatre Festival.

KATRINA CORNWELL: The way that we've created the show is we've tried to mirror the internet, so it's fast-paced, there's a lot of projections used. Some conversations that are just merely had through projected text, mimicking text messages.

So we've tried to really capture the feeling of being stuck in the internet on stage.

BEN, AGE 17: There will be this kind of shock factor, just with the speed of it, with things that, like, just with it all, it's just so, oh, wow.

MORGAN ROSE: Any question they have, they can google. Like we all can now.

So they have a lot more information than we did when we were younger. And I guess there's good things and bad things about that. We've been discussing all of that in this play and examining all of that.

What don't you understand? I didn't want to do that. I didn't want to do that and we did it anyway and now I can't even look at you without feeling anxious.

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MEMBER OF AUDIENCE: It's so real. It's so refreshing to see young people on stage actually talking about what young people really talk about.

MEMBER OF AUDIENCE: A lot of it was quite funny. Confronting... Some bits.

MEMBER OF AUDIENCE: It's kind of scary really, watching them and, yeah, it kind of makes you go, oh...

MONIQUE SCHAFTER: What message are you trying to get across?

SARAH: I think it's supposed to be a commentary on...

CHARLIE: Don't be a knob.

SARAH: On how, what it's like being a teenager.

BONNIE: You know, we're navigating a new landscape. Like everyone else is, and we're just trying our best.